With the hype surrounding the Cindy Sherman blockbuster retrospective on the 6th floor, which critics have almost unanimously praised, I was surprised to find that the most invigorating, exciting and generally mind-blowing exhibition at MoMA right now is Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, a small drawing show on the third floor. Proving the continued importance and…
Author: Fluxus Guy
Allan Revich is an artist and musician living in Victoria, BC, Canada.
Artwork includes traditional media including ink and paint, as well as intermedia such as websites, performances, and event scores.
Musical activity includes blues bands playing harmonica and lap steel guitar, as well as playing ukulele, guitar, and flute.
His books, Headline Haiku 2006, Headline Haiku 2007, and Fluxus Vision are available internationally on Amazon.com and its affiliates, as his most recent collection of poems, "Flux You!".
Ay-O: Over the Rainbow Once More
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Ay-O: Over the Rainbow Once More 4 February–6 May 2012 Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku Tokyo 135-0022 Japan www.mot-art-museum.jp Ay-O, “My 192 Friends,” 2011. Ay-O: Over the Rainbow Once More Discover the vibrant world of Ay-O through this retrospective of his work, covering…
Yoko Ono: Imagine Peace for Fluxfest Chicago
http://imaginepeace.com/archives/16853 Nice plug from Yoko for contemporary Fluxus. Now… If only she would grace us with a surprise visit too! Wouldn’t that be sweet?
Fluxfest Chicago 2012 – Poster and Schedule
FLUXFEST CHICAGO 2012 February 9th – 12th, 2012 Feb 9th 5:00pm – 7:30pm FROM THE ARCHIVE Mailart and Fluxus from the archives of Fluxus/St. Louis. Opening reception Chicago Art Institute, Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection. 37 S. Wabash, 5th Floor. Feb 10th 2:00pm – 5pm FLUX IT YOURSELF Scores and Performances by Contemporary Fluxus….
Fluxfest 2012 – Chicago
February 9th – 12th, 2012 International Fluxus is gearing up for 4 days of performance and activity in Chicago this February, and are hoping that everyone who can, will join in the festival. If you can’t make it in person, we’d still love to have you included. Please send a score that could be performed,…
What is Fluxus? What is not?
There have never been really solid lines demarking where Fluxus starts and stops. To my mind there are some things that are clearly Fluxus and others that are clearly not Fluxus, but there is a heck of a lot of grey in between. For example, I am not currently aware of any pure audio art…
Fluxus Weekend in NYC (November 11, 2011)
In the spirit of Fluxus, Performa will produce an intensive 52-hour program (Friday, November 11, 5:00 pm) across New York City, collaborating with members of the Performa Consortium. A five-part program will be presented in several key Fluxus forms, honoring the history and prompting the making of new Fluxus actions, objects, music, film, and ideas…
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Fluxus?
I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic … I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds. The quote above is from Ralph Waldo Emerson, as found in Ken Friedman‘s essay,…
Fluxus dead or alive (again)
The Fluxus dead or alive argument is simpler than many people on both sides make it out to be. Fluxus was a group of artists in the 60s and 70s. The group largely disbanded after Maciunas died. Ergo Fluxus is dead. BUT… That group of artists set an idea in motion. That idea (or attitude)…
Exhibition: Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life
Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life April 16–August 7, 2011 Hanover, NH 03755 603.646.2808 hood.museum@dartmouth.edu hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu One of the things—maybe the most important thing—that art is good for is thinking about life. Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, a major traveling exhibition based on the Hood Museum of Art’s George Maciunas Memorial Collection…
What is Fluxus? What is not?
There have never been really solid lines demarking where Fluxus starts and stops. To my mind there are some things that are clearly Fluxus and others that are clearly not Fluxus, but there is a heck of a lot of grey in between. For example, I am not currently aware of any pure audio art…